Chapter 97: The Silent Tiangong Sacred Supplication Great Dharma

A thick, fishy stench of rotting corpses assaulted his nose, right before his eyes!

It seemed as if leaning just a bit closer would cause those splashing droplets of blood to strike his face with brutal force!

Chen Heng suddenly tightened his expression; a chill swept through his entire body, and a terrifying, horrifying sensation surged straight into his heart.

But before he could make any other move, the instant that flayed blood-corpse touched his arms, everything abruptly dissolved into emptiness.

Like an empty, hazy illusion reflected upon water.

Merely a misty bubble...

The flayed blood-corpse arrived swiftly.

And departed just as quickly.

In merely the blink of an eye, that mournful, piercing wail gradually faded, as if suddenly separated by an infinite distance, becoming progressively too faint to hear.

Chen Heng's face darkened, and his nostrils twitched slightly.

By now, the flayed blood-corpse's agonized screams had vanished entirely into silence; were it not for the few lingering threads of extremely foul, fishy filth in the air that refused to dissipate, it would have seemed almost like a nightmare from a dream.

He fell silent for a moment, his gaze flickering.

Beside him, the rogue cultivator Lu Yu and the Qi-refining practitioners of the Blood Lotus Sect remained completely unaware, their eyes half-closed, their expressions solemn.

Upon hearing the profound parts, they could not help but sway their heads, clapping in rhythm and sighing in praise.

On the three-zhang-three-foot dharma altar.

Cave Master Master Huaiwu remained equally composed, slowly waving his fly-whisk as pearls and jade sprayed forth, while thunderous sounds shook the clouds and heavens.

Expounding the Dharma and preaching the Dao, elucidating the sacred and bright.

Everyone within this colossal palace appeared carefree and relaxed, as if oblivious to anything amiss.

As if only he, and he alone, had witnessed that scene!

Just as if...

... it were deliberately arranged for him alone to see it clearly...

The sermon at this location continued uninterrupted.

Yet in Chen Heng's eyes, countless bizarre phenomena had arisen before him, with demons and monsters covering the ground...

Human-faced giant snakes, bearing the faces of men, women, the old, and the young, lay densely coiled upon the roof beams; their tails, several zhang long, hung down from the beams to drag along the floor, rustling softly like light, soft curtains stirred by the wind.

Before the four widely opened gates stood a group of red-skinned dwarfs with four eyes and eight ears, holding bright red steel tridents; from time to time, they plucked pieces of uncooked raw meat from the tridents and stuffed them into their mouths, eating until blood dripped profusely, their eyeballs rolling wildly as they fixed their gaze on Chen Heng, and when gathered together conversing, they emitted strange, unintelligible speech.

When Chen Heng's gaze swept over them, they hurriedly scampered away with giggles, as if chasing one another.

Yet before long, they clamorously swarmed back, the malice in their eyeballs becoming increasingly undisguised, nearly bursting forth, while sticky drool trickled from the corners of their mouths to cover the ground...

Headless, big-bellied corpse giants writhed and churned like white maggots.

The blood water in the pool spontaneously played string music with a twanging sound.

Beneath the sunlight, countless chariot wheels seemed to speed back and forth endlessly, their colors flowing like fire; after passing hollowly through his body, they left behind strange humming and huffing sounds.

In the distance, a six-faced golden man as tall as a mountain sat cross-legged not far from the palace; when it tilted its torso sideways to gaze at Chen Heng, even the clouds and mist were momentarily blocked.

As far as the eye could see.

All was filled with brilliant Jin Jin Guang...

"The Mysterious Female is spirit and Qi; the mouth and nose are the gates of spirit and Qi. Exhale and inhale, extending the release and slowing the intake, making it continuous, returning to the root and restoring life. The Yang Rising Great Please Pill aligns with the flavor of spirit and Qi, allowing circulation through the hundred meridians and irrigation of the Three Fields; it is the true great medicine for clearing passes and sweeping away filth."

—"At that time, after the Great Demon King Suiyu spoke these true words, the Great Thousand World immediately shook with sixty-six types of great tremors."

"Take one jin of Purple Essence Mother Stone, grind it into fine powder, then add two liang each of Gallstone Powder and Yellow Crow Powder, grinding them together into a powder."

—"At that time, the Immortals, Buddhas, Gods, and Sages were terrified; they all simultaneously looked up at the void and saw a vast, boundless demonic image looming over the sun, moon, and five planets, illuminating countless, numberless, boundless heavenly worlds; the sound shook the calamities of great and small kalpas, causing them all to twitch in flesh and tremble in heart, their bodies losing their radiance."

"Pour three sheng of bitter wine into the furnace, nurture it continuously for seven days and nights, alternating the fire during the Zi, Chou, Mao, and Yin hours; once the lead has melted and the mercury receded, half a palm's worth of medicinal mud can be obtained."

—"If any sentient beings fail to respectfully serve the Demonic Dao, upon hearing this sound, their bodies shall become lowly, their faculties incomplete, ugly and stubborn, blind, deaf, mute, crippled, hunchbacked, afflicted with leprosy or madness; they shall suffer all manner of diseases and pains."

"After sealing, store it in fine porcelain, place it three zhang and three feet deep in the earth where the first Yang rises, seal the pill for forty-nine days, then retrieve it; the great medicine is thus formed."

—"Cut off the good people, eliminate the remnant populace; plague waters clash in waves, soldiers and fire gather around; evil breeds with evil, cruelty rises with cruelty... Praise the Great Demon King Suiyu, the master to whom all equal karmic obstacles and suffering are offered; destroy life, crush fortune, trample the Five Zheng Fa Dao!"

Evil monsters startled the heart, a multitude of terrors danced wildly!

And not only these various strangenesses, but even Cave Master Master Huaiwu's voice preaching on the dharma altar.

In Chen Heng's ears.

Had completely twisted and distorted into a terrifying demonic scripture! Entirely different!

Great sinking! Great destruction! Great annihilation! Great withering!

Gradually, gradually...

And as the narration grew progressively clearer, that demonic scripture transformed from others' worship and reverence for the 'Great Demon King Suiyu' into a great divine technique personally recited by the 'Great Demon King Suiyu' himself.

Those talismanic characters, resembling both bird claws and beast hooves, appeared one by one in his heart-field along with the demonic chanting.

Chen Heng felt as though he had fallen into clouds and mist, blurred and hazy; when he finally came to his senses, half an hour had already passed in a Xiao Daze.

"... The Silent Tiangong Sacred Supplication Great Dharma."

At this moment, a scripture suddenly appeared in his mind.

It seemed that with but a single thought, releasing his restraint, he could view it all in its entirety.

But at this moment, Chen Heng had no leisure to examine it closely; he only glanced briefly, yet was slightly startled by the scene before his eyes.

Golden men, dwarfs, chariot wheels, giant snakes...

These demons and ghosts, who knew when, had already closed in, encircling him tightly in the center; their illusory forms passed through Master Master Huaiwu and the others, as if two different void worlds had briefly overlapped.

"The Great Law of Silent Heaven Palace's Saint-Subduing Prayer."

A red-skinned dwarf loosened the steel fork in its hand and prostrated itself before Chen Heng in worship.

Standing beside the Qi cultivator of the Blood Lotus Sect, as it bowed and knelt, its head passed straight through the cultivator's abdomen, protruding several inches out the other side, as if an extra skull had inexplicably appeared at the cultivator's waist, looking utterly absurd and comical.

Yet within the entire room, only Chen Heng could truly witness these terrifying creatures and hear the sounds they emitted.

This scene, chilling yet faintly ridiculous, naturally remained invisible to anyone else.

"The Great Law of Silent Heaven Palace's Saint-Subduing Prayer."

The gigantic golden man, towering as high as a mountain range, also bowed down in prostration, countless hollow pavilions and towers embedded into its flesh and surface.

"The Great Law of Silent Heaven Palace's Saint-Subduing Prayer!"

All the red-skinned dwarfs gradually knelt to the ground; the wheels ceased turning, and the human-faced serpents, mid-copulation, crawled down separately from the beams...

All the monsters roared the same phrase in different tones, and those previously unidentifiable, bizarre languages now, at this very moment, became clear word by word, all merging into a single, unified shout.

"The Great Law of Silent Heaven Palace's Saint-Subduing Prayer! Praise the Great Demon King of Suiyu!"

The red-skinned dwarf that had first prostrated itself lifted its head and spoke respectfully to Chen Heng:

"Young Demon.

Please perform the technique—"

Thanks to Wanwu Buji Diandian for the tip of points, thanks to Li Li Bichen for the tip of 5000 points, thanks to Xianzui Linshanfeng for the tip of 1500 points, thanks to Yungui Jiadianyan for the tip of 100 points, thanks to Yueheng Rishen for the tip of 100 points, thanks to Helakesi de Yongqi for the tip of 100 points.